Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of June 5
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01:25 pm: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference
01:22 pm: At least 9 killed in Niger suicide attacks (AFP)
12:56 pm: Cabinet expansion to be held at 2 pm tomorrow, confirms Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara (ANI)
12:34 pm: ED summons businessman and actor Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra in connection with Bitcoin scam (ANI)
12:32 pm: If BJP wants to come in power again in 2019 then they have to build the Ram Mandir, else we will start a movement and make sure they are defeated: Mahant Paramhans Das on MA Naqvi's statement that development will be only issue in 2019 elections (ANI)
12:19 pm: No such incident is in my knowledge. One person advertised something like this, we looked into it. No religion conversion to Buddhism has taken place: Haryana CM ML Khattar on reports of 120 Dalits from Jind converted to Buddhism as state govt didn't fulfill their demands (ANI)
11:56 am: Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K. Palaniswami announces plastic ban in the state starting 2019. Milk and oil pouches, along with other basic need items to be exempted from the ban (ANI)
11:49 am: Pilot killed as IAF Jaguar aircraft crashes in Mundra area of Gujarat's Kutch. The aircraft was on a routine training mission from Jamnagar; court of inquiry ordered to investigate the cause of accident (ANI)
11:47 am: One Naxal killed, one arrested in four encounters with security forces in Jharkhand's Latehar yesterday (ANI)
11:35 am: Fighter aircraft crashes in Mundra area of Gujarat's Kutch (ANI)
11:19 am: TMC worker shot dead by unknown assailants in West Bengal's Bagnan. The victim's wife had recently won Panchayat elections; TMC accuses BJP of the attack (ANI)
11:18 am: Only one voters' list should be there. We constituted a team in UP under Health Min in this regard and asked them to see if it's possible to hold only 1 election and link voters' list to Aadhar card, so that new voters are automatically added to voters' list after they turn 18: UP CM (ANI)
11:16 am: Polls of states, Lok Sabha and by-polls at different times hamper development due to model code of conduct and deployment of election staff, security personnel: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (ANI)
11:12 am: Former finance minister P Chidambaram appears before ED in Aircel Maxis money laundering case (PTI)
11:04 am: Fire breaks out after tanker filled with nitrogen gas turns turtle on a highway in Gujarat's Morbi (ANI)
10:56 am: One criminal dead, another injured during encounter with police in Delhi's Vivek Vihar area (ANI)